Magento 1.9 – Home Page Block Not Working

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i like to change the home page design in magento(1.9.0.1) for that i added the below code in home page cms block

code is

content area :
{{block type="topmenu/homepage" name="home.page" output="toHtml" template="federallawyer/topmenu/home/page.phtml"}}

design area :

code in block file is

class Federallawyer_Topmenu_Block_Homepage extends Mage_Directory_Block_Data {

}

but i got only the empty home page,your idea and suggestion will help me more.
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Best Answer

You should use following line:

{{block type="core/template" template="federallawyer/topmenu/home/page.phtml"}}

and make sure you have page.phtml file in template/feerallwaer/topmenu/home directory.

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Magento 1.8 Custom Block Module – How to Create

I find the whole XML thing difficult so I am sympathetic to your cause here.

It looks to me like there is a discrepancy with your class name and your block XML

class Crusader_CLHomePage_Block_Qwerty extends Mage_Core_Block_Template

and

    <block type="core/template" name="homepage" template="crusader/home.phtml">
        <block type="crusaderhome/qwerty" name="homeads" as="homeads" template="crusader/homeads.phtml" />
    </block>

Let's start with the block type and work backward. I think here I would expect to see something like

<block type="crusader_home/qwerty" ...

and that type would refer Magento to the class

Crusader_Home_Block_Qwerty extends Mage_Core_Block_Template

Continuing to work backward on this tack, the file app\code\local\Crusader\CLHomePage\etc\config.xml would need to be modified to something like

<global>
    <blocks>
        <crusader_home>
            <class>Crusader_Home_Block</class>
        </crusader_home>
    </blocks>
</global>

It points Magento to all classes starting 'Crusader_Home_Block_*'. And now I think you need to rename your module Crusader_Home instead of Crusader_CLHomePage and change the folder names accordingly...

AND / BUT I strongly recommend you change your module name. Only ever use one capital letter at the start of the module name not three and don't put capital letters in the middle of the name either.

You may want to look into some of the tools available for generating modules. I find them very useful for avoiding typing errors. I use this one by the very clever people at MGT Commerce (it has simplicity on its side) and this one is all-encompassing and an astonishing piece of coding by Silk Software.

***EDIT following comments below

Additionally based on the error log I think the problem is that Magento can't find your class file. So double-check the caches are refreshed or off, particularly XML cache, and that the compiler is off or re-enabled.

Magento – footer_links static block not working magento 1.9.0.1

Check in page.xml (or local.xml if the theme only uses this) for the following:-

<block type="page/template_links" name="footer_links" as="footer_links" template="page/template/links.phtml">
    <action method="setTitle"><title>Quick Links</title></action>
</block>

The layouts may be controlling the footer link blocks in the footer.